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• Ketchikan substance abuse specialists talk treatment options

  28-07-2017 23:36 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Like the rest of the nation, Ketchikan has seen an increase in people abusing opioids. But, some local experts say it doesn’t mean there are that many more addicts overall – it’s just a change in what they’re addicted to.
  For this special report, we talked with three local substance abuse treatment specialists about the problem and treatment options available in Alaska’s First City.https://krbd-org.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/26KtnOpioids.mp3Opioids
  
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• Newscast – Friday, July, 28, 2017

  28-07-2017 23:14 via ktoo.org
  
  
  President Donald Trump says Congress should have approved a bill to repeal the Obama-era health law. Sen. Lisa Murkowski joined voted to kill the drive to repeal and replace “Obamacare,” or the Affordable Care Act.
  Federal authorities are charging a Utah man in the murder of his wife aboard a cruise ship off the coast of Southeast Alaska.
  The Alaska Legislature passed the state’s capital budget Thursday, allowing road projects and other construction to move forward.
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• After a rocky start, Unalaska’s subsistence salmon run hits target escapement

  28-07-2017 22:32 via ktoo.org
  So far more than 11,000 sockeye have passed through Unalaska’s McLees Lake weir. (KUCB)
  While Unalaska’s biggest subsistence salmon run got off to a slow start this season, it’s now at a sustainable level.
  The start of the McLees Lake run was so low, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game issued an emergency order early this month to protect the area around the mouth of the creek.
  While there are a lot of factors at play, biologist Colton Lipka says low water could have affecte
  
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• Wrangell Assembly OKs wage boost for non-union, union employees

  28-07-2017 22:19 via ktoo.org
  Wrangell municipal employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers pose on the picket line June 22, 2017. They’ve since reached a new contract agreement with the borough, which now goes before the Assembly. (Photo courtesy IBEW )
  Municipal employee wage increases and other changes will cost Wrangell close to a half-million dollars over three years.
  That includes terms of a collective bargaining agreement accepted earlier this month and similar changes for non-u
  
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• Coast Guard medevacs man suffering chest pain aboard fishing boat in Southeast Alaska

  28-07-2017 21:15 via ktoo.org
  A man suffering from chest pain was hoisted from a fishing vessel Wednesday night by the U.S. Coast Guard Wednesday night.
  Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Juneau received a medevac request the F/V Kindred Spirit, saying a crew member was suffering symptoms of a stroke. They were located in Stephens Passage near Port Snettisham.
  A Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Sitka medevaced the man to Juneau.
  Pilot Lt. Robert McCabe said the hoist was one of the most challenging the Air Station
  
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• Alaska Fish and Game euthanizes ‘massive’ black bear

  28-07-2017 20:51 via ktoo.org
  A black bear gets into trash cans on Forget-Me-Not Lane in the Switzer Village Mobile Park area. Alaska Fish and Game officials euthanized a “massive” black bear on Tuesday. The bear had been causing problems in the mobile home park for several years, according to Fish and Game officials. (Photo courtesy Daylene Rhyner)
  JUNEAU — Alaska Fish and Game officials euthanized a “massive” black bear that had been causing problems in an Alaska mobile home park area for seve
  
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• North Korea launches a new ballistic missile, Seoul and the Pentagon say

  28-07-2017 19:52 via ktoo.org
  Updated at 12:32 p.m. ET
  North Korea has launched “one unidentified missile” from its northern Jagang province, the South Korean Defense Ministry announced in a statement. The Pentagon confirmed to NPR that it has also identified a missile launch from the North.
  Citing the Japanese chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, The Associated Press reports the missile “flew for about 45 minutes and appeared to have landed in the waters of Japan’s exclusive economic zone.”
  
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• McCain votes no, dealing potential death blow to Republican health care efforts

  28-07-2017 19:24 via ktoo.org
  In a moment of unexpected high drama, Republicans were stymied once again in their effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act — and they have John McCain to thank for it.
  In the early morning hours Friday, the senator showed why he earned the nickname “Maverick” over his long tenure.
  McCain, who was diagnosed with brain cancer and returned to Washington to advance the health care bill, turned around and bucked his party’s leadership — and President Trump — by jo
  
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• Legislature passes capital budget in one-day special session

  28-07-2017 04:39 via ktoo.org
  Rep. Neil Foster, D-Nome, and Rep. Chris Tuck, D-Anchorage, talk before the vote on the capital budget on Thursday. The House voted for the budget, 27-13. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO)
  The Alaska Legislature passed the state’s capital budget today, allowing road projects and other construction to move forward.
  It was the only piece of business for the third special session, which lawmakers called themselves. It came and went in about six hours on Thursday.
  The capital budget is $1.4 bi
  
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• Aircraft downed on north side of Lake Clark, recovery efforts underway

  28-07-2017 03:28 via ktoo.org
  Conditions Thursday afternoon from a Federal Aviation Administration webcam looking south from Lake Clark Pass, towards the vicinity of where Miller Creek drains into Lake Clark. (Photo courtesy Federal Aviation Administration)
  Recovery efforts are underway Thursday evening for what is believed to be a fatal aircraft accident in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.
  The preserve is about 88 miles west of Kenai, Alaska.
  Spokesperson Megan Richotte said that an NPS aircraft with rangers was launc
  
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• Entomologist tracks the year in Alaska bugs

  28-07-2017 03:18 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Bumblebee checks out a lupine at Eagle Beach State Recreation Area. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  Bugs of various shapes and sizes are part of life in Alaska, and it can be easy for them to escape notice.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170726-09.mp3Anecdotally, this year seems light on one of Alaska’s most prolific insects, the mosquito. Despite the fact that Alaska is home to nearly forty species of the insect, there just don’t seem to be as many around as in some years.
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• Juneau Afternoon – 7-28-17

  28-07-2017 02:10 via ktoo.org
  Friday at 3 on a Juneau Afternoon, Andy Kline will host;Natalee Watson will be here to highlight Girls on the Run;We’ll get the details about this weekend’s Douglas Volunteer Firefighter’s Whale Watching Cruise;That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, live at 3 on KTOO, repeated at 4 on KRNN, and available on demand via ktoo.org
  
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• Feds charge Utah man with wife’s murder aboard cruise ship in Alaska 

  28-07-2017 00:08 via ktoo.org
  Passengers wait aboard the Emerald Princess moored on the South Franklin Street Dock in Juneau on Wednesday, July 27, 2017. The FBI investigated an alleged murder after a Utah woman died the day before on the ship. (Photo by Tripp J Crouse/KTOO)
  Federal authorities are charging a Utah man in the murder of his wife aboard a cruise ship in Southeast Alaska.  
  Kenneth Ray Manzanares, 39, of Santa Clara, Utah, is charged in the death of his wife, Kristy Manzanares.  
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• Feds charge Utah man with wife’s murder aboard cruise ship in Alaska

  28-07-2017 00:08 via ktoo.org
  Passengers wait aboard the Emerald Princess moored on the South Franklin Street Dock in Juneau on Wednesday, July 27, 2017. The FBI investigated an alleged murder after a Utah woman died the day before on the ship. (Photo by Tripp J Crouse/KTOO)
  Federal authorities are charging a Utah man in the murder of his wife aboard a cruise ship off the coast of Southeast Alaska.
  Kenneth Ray Manzanares, 39, of Santa Clara, Utah, is charged in the death of Kristy Manzanares, who died Tuesday.
  After about 15
  
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